Game #5092
Aston Villa
Saturday, 2 October 2010
Lost
8th (-3)
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥
Premier League
Attendance: 35,871
Tottenham Hotspur
White Hart Lane
Villa lose for the first time under Gérard Houllier to make it three defeats in seven Premier League games so far this season.
Tottenham Hotspur
2-1
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Emile Heskey | 16’ |
KEY MAN
Eric Lichaj and Villa try to hold off Tottenham but are beaten for the first time under Gérard Houllier as the North Londoners come from behind to win, Saturday, 2 October 2010.
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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 2 October 2010
⚽ | 16’ Goal, 1-0, Marc Albrighton, Assist by Emile Heskey
🟨 | 29’ Booking, Ashley Young
🔁 | 35’ Sub off, Emile Heskey, Sub on, John Carew
🟨 | 45’ Booking, Marc Albrighton
🥅 | 45’+3 Goal, 1-1, (Tottenham Hotspur), Rafael van der Vaart
🕒 | HT Tottenham Hotspur 1-1 Aston Villa
🥅 | 75’ Goal, 1-2, (Tottenham Hotspur), Rafael van der Vaart
🔁 | 81’ Sub off, Marc Albrighton, Sub on, Barry Bannan
🔁 | 81’ Sub off, Stiliyan Petrov, Sub on, Stephen Ireland
🟨 | 85’ Booking, James Collins
🕒 | FT Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Gérard Houllier suffers his first defeat as Villa boss despite taking an early lead through Marc Albrighton from an assist by revitalised Emile Heskey. Heskey would however go off injured before half time as Villa lost for the third time in seven Premier League games having taken eleven in 2009-10.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
UEFA Cup / Europa League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Tottenham Hotspur
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup / Europa League: 🏆🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 2007-08
FIXTURE HISTORY
Tottenham Hotspur
Previous 5 vs. Spurs: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟨
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #10 |
League Game | #7 |
Manager Game | #3 |
Saturday, 2 October 2010
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Mark Clattenburg | 🏴 | Durham, 2000-2017
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Score: 🟥 1-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Mark Clattenburg | 🏴 | Durham, 2000-2017
Previous 5: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 1 May 10, Villa 1-3 Abu Dhabi (a)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Jake Collin, Scott Ledger
CARDS
TEAM NEWS
Richard Dunne replaces Carlos Cuéllar.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 29.13 |
Oldest Player |
GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 | 39.40 |
Youngest Player |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴 | 20.88 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 |
Harry Redknapp | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴 |
CB James Collins | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
RB Luke Young | 🏴 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 🔁 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴 | 🟨 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🟨 | 🔁 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴 |
CF Emile Heskey | 🏴 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
Tottenham Hotspur
GK Heurelho Gomes | 🇧🇷 |
LB Benoît Assou-Ekotto | 🇨🇲 |
CB Sébastien Bassong | 🇨🇲 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 |
M Tom Huddlestone | 🏴 |
M Jermaine Jenas | 🏴 |
M Rafael van der Vaart | 🇳🇱 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🔁 |
M Luka Modrić | 🇭🇷 | 🔁 |
W Gareth Bale | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CF Roman Pavlyuchenko | 🇷🇺 | 🔁 |
CF Peter Crouch (ex) | 🏴 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 | for CF Emile Heskey | 🏴 | 35’ |
🔁 M Barry Bannan | 🏴 | for W Marc Albrighton | 🏴 | 81’ |
🔁 M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 | for M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 81’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | M Rafael van der Vaart | 🇳🇱 | (M Sandro | 🇧🇷 |)
🔁 | M Luka Modrić | 🇭🇷 | (M Wilson Palacios | 🇭🇳 |)
🔁 | CF Roman Pavlyuchenko | 🇷🇺 | (W Aaron Lennon | 🏴 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
M Steve Sidwell | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Carlo Cudicini | 🇮🇹 |
CB Vedran Corluka | 🇭🇷 |
M Niko Kranjcar | 🇭🇷 |
CF Robbie Keane | 🇮🇪 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI: £71.46m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 10/18
Homegrown: 3/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
Team Cost: £142.02m
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 3 |
M Fabian Delph | 🏴 |
F Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 |
Bomb Squad | 1 |
M Moustapha Salifou | 🇹🇬 |
UNAVAILABLE
Not Reported
Player Abbreviations:
GK : Goalkeeper
LB, RB, FB : Left Back, Right Back, Full Back
CB, D : Centre Back, Defender
M, W : Midfielder. Winger
F, CF : Forward, Centre Forward
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game
Symbols:
⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution
🟨 | Booking
🟥 | Sending off
🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
DEBUT APPEARANCES
FINAL APPEARANCES
MATCH STATS
Possession F | 47%
Possession A | 53%
Shots F | 12
Shots A | 15
Shots on Target F | 3
Shots on Target A | 4
Corners F | 4
Corners A | 10
Fouls F | 19
Fouls A | 12
TABLE

PROGRAMME



MATCHDAY QUOTES
"I've got mixed feelings because, at the same time that I'm proud of their performance, I'm disappointed with the result. A more fair result would have been a draw.
"The only thing we can blame ourselves for is probably the fact that we didn't take our chances. A couple of times, we could have sealed the game."
Gérard Houllier.
*Sky Sports*
Saturday, 2 October 2010
*Dutch courage saves Spurs*
Two goals from Rafael van der Vaart earned Tottenham a 2-1 win over Aston Villa after a frantic game at White Hart Lane.
Villa, boasting a perfect record under new boss Gerard Houllier, went toe-to-toe with their North London hosts from the off and took the lead through Marc Albrighton in the 16th minute.
Emile Heskey, who seems a man reborn under Houllier, showed great determination and strength to win the ball and drive into the area, pulling it across for Albrighton who finished from close range.
But Spurs fought back and Van der Vaart levelled the scores on the stroke of half-time, heading in at the back post after Peter Crouch had won the initial cross in the air.
Having set the Lane alight in midweek against FC Twente, it was to be the Dutchman’s day once more and he secured the win in the 75th minute when latching onto another Crouch header to smash past the helpless Brad Friedel.
Tottenham fielded a makeshift centre-back partnership of Tom Huddlestone and Sebastien Bassong, their 10th in 12 games this injury-blighted season, after Ledley King failed a late fitness test.
Even with King available on Wednesday night, Spurs looked too open for comfort at times and Saturday’s line-up appeared even more attack-minded.
*Missed header*
And they should have been ahead inside five minutes when Roman Pavlyuchenko nodded over Luka Modric’s left-wing cross.
But Villa began to take control of the game and, after a couple of half-hearted penalty appeals, they went ahead.
Terrible defending from Bassong saw him robbed by Heskey down the right and the revitalised former England striker sprinted along the byline before crossing for Albrighton to slide home.
Spurs screamed for a penalty themselves 22 minutes in when Pavlyuchenko’s shot hit the recalled Richard Dunne’s hand but it was not intentional and Alan Hutton sent the follow-up into the side-netting.
Ashley Young was needlessly booked for deliberate handball and Villa suffered a second blow when lone frontman Heskey limped off to be replaced by John Carew 10 minutes before the break.
Pavlyuchenko wasted another chance to score four minutes later, hooking Gareth Bale’s excellent low cross wide from six yards.
Carew and Young both fired over from 20 yards, Friedel was almost caught out by Van der Vaart’s skidding effort, Albrighton was cautioned for a foul on Hutton and Young sent a shot on the turn straight at Heurelho Gomes.
Van der Vaart then levelled three minutes into stoppage-time when he climbed above Dunne to nod home after Crouch had headed Pavlyuchenko’s ball back across goal.
The Holland midfielder was moved from the right into a more central role after the restart, with Pavlyuchenko withdrawn for Aaron Lennon.
The change almost paid dividends in the 51st minute when Lennon stood a cross up for Crouch once again to nod down but Van der Vaart was somehow beaten to the ball by a desperate Stiliyan Petrov lunge.
*Crucial block*
Van der Vaart saw his next effort blocked by Dunne after being found in acres of space by Bale as Tottenham began to crank up the pressure.
But Villa remained a threat on the break and Huddlestone was looking uncomfortable up against Carew, with the striker and Albrighton both inches from connecting with Young’s dangerous cross.
Crouch should have put Spurs ahead 20 minutes from time when he powered a header over the bar after Huddlestone had flicked on Modric’s corner.
Moments later, Lennon forced a fine stop from Friedel with a low angled drive and, when he stood up another dangerous cross - this time with his left foot - 15 minutes from time, Spurs took the lead.
Crouch once more claimed the knockdown and this time there was no stopping Van der Vaart as he kept his cool to blast the ball past Friedel.
Harry Redknapp withdrew Modric for Wilson Palacios and Villa soon made a double change, throwing on Stephen Ireland and Barry Bannan for Petrov and Albrighton.
Dunne nodded a late corner off target and James Collins was booked for felling Lennon in full flight, only escaping a straight red by covering defenders.
Lennon was rampant and his latest cross found Hutton, whose shot was blocked before Van der Vaart was substituted to a standing ovation in the final minute, Sandro coming on to make his Premier League debut.